Christian History Magazine—Issue 81: John Newton: Author of “Amazing Grace”
Overview
After years of running, searching, and falling, amazing grace finally caught up with John Newton. Leaving the lucrative slave-trade behind, he devoted his life to ministering to the lowly, the overlooked, and the ordinary in his Olney parish, and he was both friend and mentor to a young William Wilberforce—the man who would end the greatest oppression in England. This issue of Christian History and Biography recounts the life and legacy of John Newton, a man who willingly shared with others the grace that saved his wretched soul.
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Top Highlights
“John Newton, clerk, once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy.’” (source)
“‘Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable (Isa. 18:4), BUT Thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee (Deut. 15:15).’” (source)
“What a poor creature I am in myself, incapable of standing a single hour without continual fresh supplies of strength and grace from the fountain-head.’” (source)
“Newton served Christ in London until his death in 1807, influencing not only Wilberforce but such luminaries of early nineteenth-century evangelicalism as the Cambridge pastor Charles Simeon, the leading clergyman Richard Cecil, and the author and philanthropist Hannah More (in whose conversion he was instrumental).” (source)
“Newton knew well the darkness at the heart of every person.” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 81: John Newton: Author of “Amazing Grace”
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 2004
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: England › 18th century; Newton, John, 1725-1807 › Biography
- Resource ID: LLS:CH81
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:40:54Z